Volunteers applicants must be 14 years of age or older. Parental consent is required for volunteers under 18 years of age. Volunteers are required to commit to a weekly schedule for a minimum of three months. Weekly hour requirements are listed below by opportunity.
There is an immediate need for volunteer help in the Professional Education department. Responsibilities include copying and collating handouts.
Our efforts to build a future without cancer extend beyond our laboratories and treatment rooms and include administrative offices. Administrative volunteers contribute to patient care by performing clerical duties such as filing, copying, labeling, and data entry. This program requires a minimum of four hours of service a week during normal business hours.
Healing Power of the Arts offers patients and their families the opportunity to discover the artist hidden inside each of us. Volunteers play music, create arts and crafts, and read poetry, among other things. These activities offer so much more than a much-needed diversion to patients and families; they also provide the means for self-expression and discovery during a challenging time. These opportunities are available to individuals, groups, or organizations.
There is an immediate need for volunteer help at the main information desk, in the outpatient clinics and in palliative care.
Nurses, physicians, and social workers at UPMC Cancer Centers treat the person - not just the disease. In this same spirit, volunteers help improve the quality of life for patients and their families by helping nurses with their duties and visiting with patients and their families. Some examples include hosting bingo games, delivering lunches to patients receiving treatment and greeting patients and visitors at Hillman Cancer Center’s front information desk. Opportunities are available in the following settings: inpatient units, outpatient clinics and palliative care services. As a volunteer in the area of Patient and Family Support, you can volunteer during weekday, evening or weekend hours. This program requires a minimum of four hours of service a week.
If you are a student (16 years and older) looking for a volunteer opportunity in laboratory research during the 2009-2010 school year, you must submit your application and resume by
October 15, 2009 to be considered for placement in this program.
Each day, researchers at UPCI are taking important steps to increase our understanding of cancer and are testing the newest, most advanced treatments to cure it. Volunteers work closely with researchers to perform a variety of tasks. Depending on the laboratory's needs, these tasks may be basic or more complex. Duties include analyses of gene expression and mutations in cancer, RT-PCR, Northern Blots, and Southern Blots for analyses of gene expression, flow cytometry, ELISA, ELISPOT, and LUMINEX assays and much more. This program requires a minimum of ten hours of service a week during normal business hours.
Volunteer & Community Services is an active partner with organizations such as the American Cancer Society by coordinating their annual fund-raising activities at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh. Volunteers assist with these efforts and help with a variety of other special events on an as-needed basis.